POLICE

A woman died and her son suffered serious burns in a fire set by her husband

  A woman died from severe burns suffered on 95 percent of her body when she was allegedly doused with fuel and set on fire in her home in the city of Pergamino by her husband, who is detained and who is also credited with having set the fire. to his 15-year-old son, who remains hospitalized in a very serious condition, police and judicial sources reported this

  • 20/09/2023 • 04:13

The woman was identified as María Alejandra Ayi (47), who died last night in the hospital of that Buenos Aires city, after being hospitalized for nearly 24 hours with very serious burns as a result of the fire on Wednesday night in her home on 1100 Montevideo Street. , from Parchment.

 

 

The man said that he had sent "a baton" because he had kicked a can of gasoline on a heater in the kitchen, which caused the fire.

 

There, presumably in the context of an argument that arose because that same day he had been notified of the couple's divorce decree, Ageno would have doused his wife and son with fuel and then set them on fire, the prosecutor added.

 

According to testimonies and what was even recorded by a security camera on the block, the teenager came out of his house engulfed in flames, where he was helped by neighbors until the arrival of an ambulance, while the woman could not escape. and suffered severe burns on more than 95 percent of his body that caused his death last night, Mastorchio explained.

 

 

"The hypothesis we have is that this explosion was produced by an accelerating material and an igneous focus that developed in the living room. We have proven that there was a previous discussion between them and that he sprayed her and her son with this flammable material."

intervening prosecutor

 

"We determined as a first hypothesis that it was intentional, which is why the case was classified as doubly aggravated homicide for the accused," said the representative of the Public Ministry.

 

 

Likewise, he added that the neighbors helped the young man take off his clothes and stated that he never said anything, nor did his mother. The prosecutor said that the witnesses' accounts were "shocking."

 

Regarding the accused, the prosecutor stated that "the first thing he says verbatim is 'I sent something wrong, I was wrong. There was a can of gasoline in the kitchen, I kicked it and it fell against the heater.'"

 

Mastorchio said that upon arriving at the house - which he still keeps preserved for further investigation - "the heater was in the kitchen but the fire started in another place, at the entrance door to the living room, where there was an armchair that was practically exterminated. by fire".

 

The preliminary report from the Pergamino firefighters working on the case is still awaited, while awaiting news on the evolution of the burned teenager, who is hospitalized in a "critical" condition at the British hospital in the city of San Nicolás.